In October 2013, the European Commission initiated a new anti-subsidy investigation.

NUMBER OF INTERVENTIONS

1

1 harmful

0 neutral

0 liberalising

SOURCE

European Commission, Notice No 2013/C 362/05, Notice of initiation of an anti-subsidy proceeding concerning imports of certain filament glass fibreproducts originating in the People's Republic of China, Official Journal of the European Union, 12.12.2013, C 362, from p. C 362/66:http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52013XC1212(01)&from=ENEuropean Commission, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1379/2014 (16.12.2014), imposing a definitive countervailing duty on imports of certain filament glass fibre products originating in the People's Republic of China and amending Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 248/2011 imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain continuous filamentglass fibre products originating in the People's Republic of China, Official Journal of the European Union, 23.12.2014, L 367, from p. L 367/22:http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2014_367_R_0006&from=EN

On December 12, 2013, the European Commission announced the initiation of an anti-subsidy investigation on imports of certain filament glass fibre products from China (Notice No 2013/C 362/05).The products subject to investigation are classified under the following HS codes: 7019.1100, ex 7019.1200 and 7019.3110. Those goods are chopped glass fibre strands (of a length of not more than 50 mm), glass fibre rovings (excluding glass fibre rovings which are impregnated and coated and have a loss on ignition of more than 3 %) and mats made of glass fibre filaments (excluding mats of glass wool).The complaint was lodged on October 28, 2013 by the European Glass Fibre Producers Association (APFE) on behalf of producers representing more than 25% of the EU production of the subject goods.On December 16, 2014, the European authorities decided to impose a definitive countervailing duty on imports of certain filament glass fibre products originating in China (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1379/2014). The rate of the duty ranges from 4.9% to 10.3% of the net free-at-Union-frontier price, depending on the company. This duty entered into force on the day following the publication of the regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union (L 367), i.e. on December 24, 2014.